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[Other Sport] Olympics viewing strategy
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Pogue Mahone
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Thought it was strange that the Dutch girl who finished 2nd in the cycling road race celebrated like she'd won it...
Only to find out she had thought she'd won it
I can't believe that she didn't know, not in 2021 with the levels of communication they have now - she must've been celebrating an Olympic silver medal...surely?
Definite Ippon get up you waffle eater.
pb21
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I think they said they don't have radios in the Olympics?
Beach Hut
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GB first medal a Bronze in judo, well done Chelsie Giles
Pavilionaire
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Well done Coventry's Chelsie Giles, stuffing the Belgians and the Swiss.
Deleted member 37369
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I'm recording all of it so that I can skip through and watch the bits I want to.
Saw some of the Women's synchronised 3m springboard earlier and thought I'd misheard the name of one of the Chinese competitors whose name is Shi Tingmao ... sounded like Cheating Men!!! She won gold anyway!!
Now watching the Women's Hundred ... which is quite entertaining ... and has a real crowd and atmosphere ... and it is raining out!!
Saw some of the Women's synchronised 3m springboard earlier and thought I'd misheard the name of one of the Chinese competitors whose name is Shi Tingmao ... sounded like Cheating Men!!! She won gold anyway!!
Now watching the Women's Hundred ... which is quite entertaining ... and has a real crowd and atmosphere ... and it is raining out!!
nickbrighton
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the vast majority of professional races all have the riders radioed up, with team cars and sports directtors giving minute by minute updates. The Olympics is more old school, with basically very little info being passed to the riders.
In todays race the breakaway jumped out front from the very start, and basically was out of sight very quickly. The peleton then reigned them back in, leaving just three out front. Unbeknown to the Dutch team, one of those three then broke away from the break away, leaving two riders together. The Dutch then worked to bring this two back and succeeded, not realising another rider was ahead.
Had the four dutch riders realised there was a lone rider, they would have worked together and would quite easily have caught up, that course was very hard for a solo rider, cycling is much more of a team sport than many realise., with three protecting one, she would have had bags of energy. Because they didnt realise the race situation ahead, they werent working effectivly and as a result the eventual winner was so far ahead that even when they caught the second and third placed pair it was too late. The dutch went on the attack as soon as that pair were caught so wouldnt have heard about the rider ahead
she did say she thought thet were racing for gold at the end!
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Randy McNob
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I see Andy Murray cried off again and presumably wasted a place that a more deserving player could have had
nickbrighton
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isn't this the equivalent of taking injured players to the Euros or World Cup. Always a danger that they wont recover, or break down if they play to early.
I dont follow Tennis enough to know about his injury status just before the Olympics, but as defending champion I would imagine that had a bearing on his selection.
um bongo molongo
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Cried off again is a bit harsh, he’s won gold the last two times!
Raleigh Chopper
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Really enjoyed the coverage of the Archery on Radio 5 Live today.
1066familyman
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mejonaNO12 aka riskit
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Ideal situation here. 4 month old not sleeping after jabs. He tends to get thrown towards me about 4am and we go downstairs.
Utter shambles at the triathlon start……false start, half the field ploughing through the water, half on the pontoon. Start gun fired when the ‘safety’ boat was in front of them
Sorry just said the same on the other thread. What an absolute mess. How the hell could that have been allowed to happen ffs?
Embarrassing………..
That boat was too close AGAIN. Shockingly unaware. Pricks.
Commentary is getting on my tits now…
‘How do they prepare for a 6.30am start’
‘They get up earlier’
‘The run is 10,000m, they are doing the full Olympic distance here’
Lindfield by the Pond
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We tend to better in sports where we are sitting down.
Cycling, rowing,yaughting, dressage etc